What song got you into gnr / your first impression?

[Doc Emmett Brown]

a voice that sounded like it came straight from hell, uncompromising, unforgiving and it kicked the s*it out of anything else on there

That is an awesome description of Axl's voice.  

I also bought this compilation of Movies Hits (2 cds), and YCBM is on the second cd.  It also has tunes from U2, The Who and Van Morrison,etc.  But I bought it b/c of GNR.

[Christos AG]

Let's see.....

Now I remember. It was that hit song "Silkworms". I remember listening to this unknown rock n' roll band play some festival in Brazil in 2001 and they played a song called "Silkworms". I was instantly hooked to this band and have been looking for a studio version ever since.



/jarmo



PS It was "Paradise City". Saw the video on Super Channel and MTV. Bought AFD.

Same shit here. Except from the Silcworms thing and the MTV. Super Channel baby...

Oh, and Mysteron, you always fill the board with useless posts and threads. Stop it or we will have to ban you...  

[Mysteron]

Let's see.....

Now I remember. It was that hit song "Silkworms". I remember listening to this unknown rock n' roll band play some festival in Brazil in 2001 and they played a song called "Silkworms". I was instantly hooked to this band and have been looking for a studio version ever since.



/jarmo



PS It was "Paradise City". Saw the video on Super Channel and MTV. Bought AFD.

Same shit here. Except from the Silcworms thing and the MTV. Super Channel baby...

Oh, and Mysteron, you always fill the board with useless posts and threads. Stop it or we will have to ban you...  

 

I promise to be good from now on  

[Christos AG]

Let's see.....

Now I remember. It was that hit song "Silkworms". I remember listening to this unknown rock n' roll band play some festival in Brazil in 2001 and they played a song called "Silkworms". I was instantly hooked to this band and have been looking for a studio version ever since.



/jarmo



PS It was "Paradise City". Saw the video on Super Channel and MTV. Bought AFD.

Same shit here. Except from the Silcworms thing and the MTV. Super Channel baby...

Oh, and Mysteron, you always fill the board with useless posts and threads. Stop it or we will have to ban you...  

 

I promise to be good from now on  

That's better... But from now on we'll be watching you...  

[im rickjames bitch]

the first time i saw the paradise city video. i must have been bout 12 or 13. i thought GNR were typical 80s rock band. i thought these guys must get along well, that singer looks like a nice bloke and he has acool voice, he prolly gets lots of ladies, this song rocks!!! i had no idea they were drug addicts. i had no idea they caused so much controversy. i didnt know axl was a freak and a jerk who beat up girls. u cant judge books by their covers.

[Mr. Dick Purple]

The first time I heard guns was when I was 9 or 10 can't remember, cause my sister like too much SCOM so from that day I wanted to hear each GNR song which with the years I did. I always believe that they were unique in their style and no one can compare to them I still does. 

[lynn1961]

The first time I heard them, when SCOM was first released,  I was already well into my 20's.  I remember thinking they were going to be the next Stones or Zep, that they were going to be HUGE.  The first time I saw the video to SCOM, I was sold.  I loved the whole look - it was so different - all the leather, tattoos, hair, bandanas.  I remember thinking they were the biggest, most bad ass rock band I'd ever seen.  They were so cool.  Went out and bought AFD as soon as I could.  They were my favorite rock n' roll band.  That was my very first impression.  I remember that, at first, I always got Duff & Steven confused, and that I wondered what Slash really looked like under all that hair.  I knew who each member was, and bought every magazine they were featured in.  That was before the internet, back in the stone age, so we had to rely on magazines & MTV for information.       

[WhatIsItMan]

Let's see...  In 1987/88 I must've been about 12ish.  I was really into rap.  I distinctly remember lying in bed one night with my headphones on.  Welcome To The Jungle comes on, and I'm like, "WTF is this???!!!"  The rest is history.

[Sillything]

Paradise City

[Vicious Wishes]

Jungle baby, fresh out of the gate!

[tonya_ytzerman]

it must've been round 92, my bro had borrowed appetite from a friend. i found the music shit (not that i'd have listened to any of it), but wanted to show off to a friend who was comin' to pick me up (like see, all the cool hip music i listen to). *cough* i think the first few notes of jungle got me, was a gunner ever since. (well i had some downtime 94 to 96, then i got on the net and found out that i wasn't the last one of our breed - rehook

[You Gonna Eat That?]

Knocking On Heavens Door for me

[gnrfan1797]

Rocket queen

[marknroses]

I am feeling reminiscent today, and this is possibly a dead horse topic....however...

What song got you into gnr? Was it WTTJ or SCOM or PC, or was it possibly a later song? YCBM perhaps and T2

Everyone has a story ?

Thats an easy one for me.
The song was "Don't Cry".
I misplaced UYI II with I when I first copied the CDs in 1999 and put it on track 4 to hear KOHD, but instead got a different song. At first I was going to stop the song, but then realized to myself that this song could have been a hit at one point for the band (which I turned out to be right on).

I still consider Don't Cry to be one of GNR's Top Songs Ever.

MNR

[Neemo]

Hmmmm....

You know what it was so long ago that i can't really remember.

ISE really got me hooked i think

[GNROSAS]

You Could Be Mine Videoclip.....Watching it in TV and being blown away by the raw energy.....I was about eleven years old and that song kicked me in the balls......The energy and the voice felt so part of me......

Later in the year i asked for my 1st LP as a birthday present......It was UYI 1......No turning back since then....

[Morley]

Used To love Her... blow my mind.

And then I realise that SCOM was from same band...   I?m a big fan since then.

[conny]

You Could Be Mine - don't even know why, but there was just something about it that made me buy UYI II. 

It's still one of my favourite GN'R songs, and it's the song that I usually "get back into" GN'R with when I haven't listened to them for a long time. It just always gets me, I love this song.

[Lord Kayoss]

Welcome To The Jungle. ?The first time I heard the song is when the video debuted on MTV.

I was like: ?"Goddamn this is cool!!"

From there I was hooked.

[Deez Nuts]

#10 on disc two of Live Era made me say that "GNR was my favorite band" back in the fall of 1999.  Madagascar made me an Internet groupie whore of GNR in 2002. 

Interesting that WTTJ isn't on more people's lists and that PC and SCOM got most people into GNR.